Naoshi
Wednesday July 2, 2008
The ceiling boy’s love; The bad habit of a guy who lives in Post — both limited edition prints
Naoshi is an artist from Japan, who uses colored sand to “paint” her pictures. She sells prints and postcards of her work in her shop, and has done a lot of exhibitions around the world.
The method, called Sunae, is a fine art of sand painting, which, according to the little tutorial on her portfolio is basically drawing a picture, cutting some bits out and carefully blowing sand on it (she makes it sound so easy!)
And if you’d like to know more, you can read a little interview with the artist here.
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Little Jane Street
Thursday June 19, 2008
The Coin Purse and The Suit greeting card from her Signature Collection
I like the textures of these collage-inspired cards by Alarna Zinn, an Australian artist who recently launched a line of cards and tags at Little Jane St.
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Emily Ipolani
Saturday May 17, 2008
Bird Day – 8’ x 10’ Print
Out of Order – Blank Card
DollyGagging is a shop helmed by Emily Ipolani and footed by Erik Stein in California, where she recently put up her limited edition ACEOs and postcard prints for sale.
Read up on their blog, where there’s more of Emily’s art, and check out her portfolio too — you should read her About page (it’s inspiring AND funny!)
Jenny M
Monday April 14, 2008
Sleeping Cat: A matchbox original
This is rather clueless of me, but Jenny (of Flickr’s greenfemale fame) recently started a shop called Be Happy Now on Etsy selling her art. I’ve been a fan for some time now, but most of her illustrations were only available for viewing, so I’m happy that she now has a shop of her own.
Tiny Books
3 characters drawn on toilet paper rolls!
She’s one of my favorite artists on flickr who draws her whimsical illustrations on almost everything! She is also currently studying, and posts up illustrations based on the topic of old classics – her transformation of text and narration into illustration is very inspiring, mainly because I love storybook illustrations.
A page from her Moleskine sketchbook for the Moleskine Exchange Project
She hails from Israel, and there’s wonderful clips of her Moleskine sketches on YouTube as well. My favorite one so far is her tiny books filled with her illustrations, encased in a felt casing of their own.
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Happy Easter!
Sunday March 23, 2008
Eggcited about Easter cards
I know I’m late for this, but the lovely Happy Easter cards by Heidi Burton are just too cute to pass up!
Lovebugs; Little Teapot greeting cards
The UK-based illustrator originally started her Etsy store selling her illustrations, but recently opened her Making Strangers Etsy Store to specifically sell her cards.
Her blog is also a wonderful read. Check out her recent Moleskine adventure where she had to stay up through the night to finish a journal for moleskine.com. Here’s a couple of pages from her blog entry:
Incredible!
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